Bad username/password - A fix?

[Fire]

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Link to Forum: http://sb.macparadise.co.uk/shadowbane/

Problem Description:
My forum was hanging and timing out when you tried to visit it. So, not being the most tech savvy person i deleted everything and uploaded it again, from a local copy.

However, i now get this message:

Warning:  Access denied for user: 'root@localhost' (Using password: YES) in /home/sites/site182/web/subdomains/sb.macparadise.co.uk/web/shadowbane/index.php on line 50

Warning:  MySQL Connection Failed: Access denied for user: 'root@localhost' (Using password: YES)  in /home/sites/site182/web/subdomains/sb.macparadise.co.uk/web/shadowbane/index.php on line 50
Access denied for user: 'root@localhost' (Using password: YES)

I've been told this is down to bad username/password settings. How might i fix this? Any help would be great!

Thanks,
Fire.

[Shadow's Pawn]

You overwrote your Settings.php with a clean version.  You need to change the username and password for your MySQL database in Settings.php, along with all your path info, then try again.

[Fire]

Thankyou for the reply!

Okay, i've uploaded my settings.php again with all the relevent data, but now it won't load saying no data could be loaded from this location.

Should i need to change another setting? I updated all of the database settings. Could something else be causing this. You'll notice it's a subdomain, the main domain is working fine (and has a yabbse forum too).

So any ideas?

[Shadow's Pawn]

Double check your absolute paths and your urls in settings.php..

then check all your chmods.  Make sure the yabbse folder is 755, and index.php can be executed.

[Fire]

Yes, you were right. My paths were messed up, but are fixed now. I checked all of the chmod settings from the install read me and they're all correct. The problem persists..

How would i check index.php can be executed? Is there anything else that could be causing this? A malicious hack, perhaps? Missing/incorrect data elsewhere?

Help!